As soon as Manninger's army was mobilized, Green was keenly aware of something!
After all, he is a veteran in the army. Although he has been shelved for many years, this mad dog's keen sense of smell has not faded much.
Just as Manninger scattered his cavalry and the Odin army surrounded by Green was frequently mobilized, some generals in the army were deeply worried, worried that this was a signal that Manninger was finally going to launch a general attack. But after looking at the high platform of the military camp for a long time, Green suddenly burst into laughter!
The haze that had gathered on the face of this mad dog for days was swept away! Instead, there is excitement, excitement, and a hint of... edge? !
Sure enough, the army of the Odins began to move, but they gathered towards Manninger's camp, and the large net that surrounded Green was withdrawn by Manninger himself.
When it was still dark the next day, someone excitedly ran to Green and told Green: The Odins have retreated!
This news made all the generals in the army rejoice, but Green just smiled when he heard it, and his expression was very calm.
He didn't panic, but carefully asked the sergeant who reported it. When he learned that the Odins had left thousands of people behind, Green's eyes burst into a gleam of brilliance!
"The one left behind is the infantry or the cavalry?"
"An army of foot soldiers!"
The reporting sergeant answered steadily.
When Green heard this, he suddenly slapped the table and jumped up. The old mad dog had a happy face, and laughed aloud a few times, his face even more murderous and hideous!
"Good! Good! Good!! Manninger finally made a move! Hahahahaha!!!"
Some of the generals below watched the head coach suddenly go mad, so they cautiously probed: "My lord, since the Odins have withdrawn, let's withdraw. The food reserves in the army are already somewhat insufficient. The thousands of troops left behind are all infantry, which is fortunate! If the cavalry left behind, we still have to worry about them chasing after us when we withdraw, but now we don’t have to worry about this one.”
As soon as Green heard this, his eyes widened suddenly, looking at the person below, he suddenly shouted!
"Withdraw?! Joke!! I've been holding back for so many days, swallowing my breath and fear, I just waited for this day! Now is a great opportunity for our army to build merits! You want me to withdraw?! Hahahaha! Sharba!!! "
With his last cry, a strong and mighty man immediately squeezed out of the generals. It was the cavalry commander General Sharba in the small group of Char Ya!
As a confidant and a good brother who lived and died together with Charya, Charya handed over his cavalry regiment to Sharba to lead. The remnants of the original Rodriguez cavalry, plus the horse thieves that Nene's subordinates incorporated, compiled an independent cavalry regiment, thousands of cavalry, all handed over to Sharba!
And this brave, honest and forthright man is indeed worthy of being a hero from the Rodriguez cavalry. Now all the generals in the big tent heard Manninger's retreat, and they were all thinking of retreating, but this Sharba was gearing up. , with an eager look on his face, as soon as he heard Green's call, he immediately walked out and gave a flat salute.
In Xia Ya's army, after all, cavalry is a minority, only a few thousand cavalry, he can not support a pure cavalry regiment similar to the Rodriguez cavalry regiment, an independent cavalry regiment composed of thousands of cavalry, can also be regarded as Luxuriously formulated. But Xia Ya attaches great importance to the cavalry. In order to show the status of the cavalry, Shaerba, a guy who only commands more than 4,000 cavalry, has also been given the rank of a general! In terms of military rank, he was already at the same level as the commander-in-chief of the Corps. Even Green, as the commander-in-chief of a regiment, was only at the level of a general.
At this moment, Shaerba came out. With his military rank, he didn't need to salute Green, but Green was a veteran in the army, and Shaerba always paid attention to showing respect to this mad dog.
Looking at Sharba, Green's expression immediately became serious: "Five thousand Odins, if it is a field battle, can you eat as a cavalry!"
Sharba's eyes suddenly burst into a fiery light, but he took a deep breath, not anxious, but suppressed the heat in his heart, and said steadily: "If the other party is a cavalry, I will still be worried. The opponent can't escape, everyone is cavalry, and it is inevitable that there will be some surprises in pursuit. But if the opponent is infantry... Hmph, thousands of infantry, my cavalry regiment will fight!"
Green listened, nodded with satisfaction, but gave Sharba a deep look.
In my memory, this man is loyal to Xia Ya and has the ability to lead cavalry, but he is a little reckless and anxious, but now it seems that he has been honed, and the answers just now are not anxious. Impatient, but quite a bit like a real general.
Green then sneered: "Okay! It's getting dark! First eat the army that Manninger left behind! Then the army opens... Let's continue south! Run after Manninger! Sharba! Your cavalry regiment eats it This broken army will go south immediately, I want you to bite Manninger's army, fight and go... Be careful, don't be surrounded by them! Beat, run and run, I don't want you to fight to the death, as long as you Try to delay their southward speed as much as possible! Naturally, my army will follow slowly behind, and be your backing!"
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Manninger is indeed a fool.
Leaving the march to fight, there are two armies, both of which must be filled with elites! The first is the vanguard. It opens the way to the mountains and builds bridges when it encounters water. It is a sharp knife of the vanguard. It goes ahead of the main force. It must be undertaken by the elite. When the enemy is blocked, it must be able to clear the way for the main force! Don't lose the morale of the whole army! The two are the broken troops! When the army retreats, in order to prevent the enemy from counterattacking and chasing, the broken army must use the elite, in order to steadily stabilize the rear for the main force, and gain enough time for the army to retreat calmly without the danger of the enemy's counterattack.
In the cold weapon war, the commander of these two types of troops has always chosen to use cavalry whenever there is a choice!
The reason is also very simple: not to mention the vanguard, the cavalry is fast and mobile, and it is natural to have the momentum of wind and fire to move ahead of the main force.
As for the broken army, the cavalry is used as the role. First, it can ensure the combat power. Second, after completing the broken task, the powerful cavalry can be used to ensure the smooth departure from the battlefield, so that it will not be swallowed up by others.
Manninger's trick is that the 5,000 troops he left behind are actually infantry! !
In fact, Manninger is not really dizzy, but at this moment, he really has no choice.
There are thousands of cavalry with him at the moment, but he is worried about the new city in his heart, so he can't wait to fly to the new city with his wings, and can't wait to rush to the city of the new city in the blink of an eye. At this moment, in order to retake the old nest, it is also a half-moment. OK
So he gathered all the cavalry, and as the vanguard, he headed straight for the new city.
Those responsible for the break, naturally can only use infantry.
It has always been a taboo thing for soldiers to break up after the infantry. Because of the broken troops left behind, the idea of being "abandoned" will inevitably arise in their hearts. And if it was cavalry, it would be fine, and they could run after the fight, but infantry, relying on two legs, could not run away in case of any accident, and it was inevitable that the army would be shaken. After the break, most of them can't resolutely fight to the death.
How could Manninger not know this situation, but in this situation, weigh the pros and cons, after all, the importance of the new city is above everything else! He even had a thought in his heart: Even if the thousands of broken troops behind him were really eaten... As long as he could retake the new city, it would be worth it!
Moreover, he still has some hope: the Byzantine army on the opposite side seems to be short of food, and after being besieged for so many days, the military's morale is naturally low. At this time, the lack of food and the lack of morale may not have the courage to dare. Come up and do it, the 5,000 people who are left behind may not need to use swords at all!
But Manninger was miscalculated after all!
Although Green's army is indeed short of food, Green has always done one thing: his unit, the infantry unit, has begun to reduce the daily ration from 70% to 50%!
However, Sharba's cavalrymen are fully prepared with daily rations, and they are supplied with a lot of money! !
Green has been in the army for a long time, and naturally understands a truth: whether it is to pursue a victory, or to break through when a defeat is lost! You have to rely on the cavalry! Therefore, ensuring the combat effectiveness of the cavalry is the most important!
It was night, just as Manninger's army pulled out and returned to the new city, the army left less than half a day. That night, Green launched a counterattack!
The cavalry regiment led by Sharba, thousands of cavalrymen rushed out of their nests, and rushed towards the troops left behind by Manninger! !
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The news of the collapse of the broken troops was sent to Manninger's army in the middle of the night. At this moment, his tens of thousands of troops, under his strict orders, marched in the direction of the new city while stepping on the snow at night.
It only took more than half a day for the army to move out. After all, it has not gone too far, and it is not too far from the troops after the breakup, and the message transmission from the rear is also fast.
After Manninger vomited blood, his body gradually deteriorated, his spirit was lethargic, and he couldn't even ride a horse, he could only take a car.
When the news that the broken troops had been defeated was delivered to Manninger, the cronies around him were worried that the bad news would make the patriarch vomit blood again, but after Manninger heard the news, he was only silent for a while. , and then he sighed softly and said in a low voice, "Got it..."
That tone seemed to have long expected this result.
This kind of guess is not bad. Manninger has indeed guessed that most of the thousands of people after the break are mostly bad luck. Since he had sent all the cavalry to Xincheng, he had already made plans to lose this broken army.
However, he did not expect this broken army to collapse so fast! The own army had only left for less than half a day, and the news of the defeat came.
And what worries him even more is that the Byzantine army's combat power seems to be very powerful if he can defeat thousands of his own troops so quickly! Moreover, Manninger immediately judged that the opponent must have used cavalry, and it was also an elite cavalry with strong combat effectiveness! Otherwise, the 5,000 broken troops that he left behind are not waste, how could they be defeated so quickly!
Cavalry... hehe! cavalry! !
This Byzantine commander is a guy with means. The army is short of food, but he can still allow the cavalry to retain such a good combat power. It must not be a mere horn!
It's just that Manninger has no choice!
His cavalry had departed from the main force and went south to the new town. At this moment, although the army made every effort to march quickly, there were no cavalry in the army! Even if the scouts and the guards around him were gathered together, there were only a few hundred cavalry... Such a small number of cavalry is really not enough to see.
Manninger realized that the mistake he made was not that there were no cavalry left in the broken troops! But in his main army, there were no cavalry left behind! !
The current situation has made Manninger begin to step into danger! !
Although he has tens of thousands of troops by his side, he has no cavalry!
The number of cavalry on the other side is said to be as many as three or four thousand! If you have tens of thousands of troops, you will naturally not be afraid if you set up camp, but at this moment, they are marching, and the military spirit is also a little unstable...
In theory, thousands of cavalry, as long as they are elite, it is not impossible to defeat tens of thousands of infantry in the field!
The cavalry likes "running to fight" and the most taboo is "standing to fight", while the infantry is the other way around. The state of his army marching in the field is exactly the standard "running and fighting" situation!
Even if the other party doesn't have this ability, but thousands of cavalry soldiers are entangled with each other and bite himself twice, he can't do anything about the other party! After all, all the infantry left beside him are all infantry, and they will run away when they hit, and the two-legged can never catch up with the four-legged!
In the current situation, he is completely passively beaten!
Faint trick, indeed a trick! !
If I order another part to be cut off... This is not acceptable! Since the other party can eat one of his broken troops, he has the ability to eat another!
The biggest taboo in fighting such a thing is this kind of fueling and fueling! Or directly use the superior force to eat the opponent fiercely! It is the stupidest choice to divide troops to resist like this!
Even if Manninger had the means, he was in trouble at the moment.
In the current situation, it is no longer possible to retake the new city! Manninger even had to worry about whether the tens of thousands of his own would be able to return to the new city completely under the condition of the opponent's thousands of cavalry being bitten to death! !
At this moment, his state is like a large herd of slow-moving cattle! The other party is a small pack of wolves! Although the herd of cattle is huge and the number of wolves is small, the mobility and speed of the two sides are exactly the opposite!
One mistake, the whole is passive! !
What Manninger doesn't know at the moment is that there is not only a threat behind him, but also a bigger blow ahead, waiting for his arrival!